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Yeah, I was real happy with the customer service with YamatoUSA and the Garland. Mine broke and I just never got around to doing anything about it. A long time after the fact I just emailed them, they said they'd send them right out, and they showed up a few days later. Not bad. Vostok 7

However, you do get used to this as a true Sony fan. We'll be lucky to see GT5 by 2009. Just look at how many times GT4 was delayed. And even TT which was just GT4 with motorcycles had a long development period despite them only having to change the vehicle models Vostok 7

Exactly. I'm sure Yamato didn't charge $500 for the weathered VF-1S (as much as they would have liked to I'm sure ). VF-1A Low Viz 1/48s were standard price when they first came out. It was the limited nature and desire (being a color scheme that's never been done before) that drove the price up. I bought my Low Viz for standard 1/48 price right when they came out (I was lucky, I should have bought more than one) and turned around and sold it when I was tired of it (around the time the non-limited Low Viz 2 was coming out) for a healthy profit. And the guy I sold it to thought he got a great deal. Also, the 1/60 VF-1A CF "Toys R Us" limited edition comes to mind too. I bought one for standard price from some excellent MW member in Japan that was going down to TRU and picking them up for everyone. I turned it around and sold it for a healthy profit as well when the non-Limited 1/60 CFs came out (and then bought two ). But as I said, how much of that do you think Yamato actually saw? I'm sure if they thought they could get away with $500 for the limited weathered Roy but imagine the hissy fits they would get if they did. You can't blame Yamato for a collector market price increase which is run purely by supply and demand. You CAN blame Yamato for making such a lame limited that commanded such high prices, but they aren't the ones who set such a ridiculously high price. Vostok 7

Bump from the dead!! Where's a good site to get 1/6 stuff? I used to go to SmallBluePlanet years ago but they're long gone. I finally fixed my Protect Gear Midori and am hoping to get one of the male Protect Gears before too long, gotta get an arsenal of WWII-era Axis weaponry to out fit them properly Vostok 7

I was expecting a pre-Christmas price-cut because that's historically when they've dropped prices in the past (and honestly would be a good idea now if they hope to sell any by Christmas) but I got a flier in the mail for $150 off a PS3 system if you sign up for a Sony Visa before January and purchase the system before March, so sounds like there's probably not going to be a real price drop before March. Vostok 7

I agree. Using the term "greedy" is highly subjective. What would really convince me is for someone to 1) Calculate exactly how much material cost is per unit, 2) How much cost per unit goes to making molds, 3) How much goes to engineering, 4) How much per unit goes to licensing, packaging, and general advertising, 5) How much goes to finish manufacturing (tampo printing, assembling, painting, etc. etc.) and finally 6) How much is pure profit. I think we'd all be quite surprised how low the amount of profit is, relatively. When people complain about pricing they seem to never take into account just how much goes into not only designing a product like this, but materials and other costs involved in making them. PERCEIVED value is meaningless. This is why I say that a 1/60 perfect transformation Valkyrie at $100 seems like a good deal while a 1/60 destroid made out of the same materials seems like a ripoff because I'm sure when you break it down to fundamental parts, there's no way making a non-transforming 1/60 figure out of the same materials as a 1/60 perfect transformation figure really costs the same. However, when it comes to value, it's telling when a $200+ Votoms gets marked down to $60... That means someone along the line is losing quite a bit of money. Vostok 7

But then, there probably won't be any gunmetal ones by then right? I'm in no hurry. The only game I really want it for is for GT5 if that ever comes out this decade and as a blu-ray player. Vostok 7

Anyone know if the PS3 is due for a price drop any time soon? I want to buy one but every time I buy a Sony product they either release a new version or do a major price drop or both at the same time within a couple months (I bought my first PS2, they dropped the price and released the quiet version within a month. I bought the quiet version and they dropped the price and released the thin version within two months. I just can't win!) Vostok 7

Indeed, a lot of the current pricing is artificially high somewhat compared to what it was a year or so ago because of the crappy state of the dollar. Vostok 7

Without owning a 1/60 v2 I have to say, they seem like a good value, especially compared to the VF-25 Chogokins. However, where Yamato loses it is with the Destroids. $100+ for them just doesn't make sense. Honestly, Yamato's pricing tactics just don't make much sense. Their new Patlabor for $300? Destroids for $100+? Q-Rau for over $100? Votoms are $200+ (and have to get marked down to $60 to even sell on HLJ)? And yet, perfect transformation 1/60 Valks are around $100. 1/48 perfect transformation valks were around $150. There's a crap-ton more engineering and design work in a perfect transformation Valkyrie than there is in a 1/60 destroid or a 1/24 Patlabor. Just doesn't make sense. Vostok 7

Considering the F-14s in the series are called "Kais" and "Super Tomcats" and use overtechnology (called F-14A+(Plus)Kai), there's no saying if the MiG-29s shown in the series are standard models as we know them. The Macross Compendium only lists the standard specifications for a MiG-29 and states "before modifications" before every spec. Vostok 7

I've long been pro the idea of non-transforming highly detailed fighter mode toys/display models. Most of my Macross toys end up staying in Fighter mode for most of their life anyway. I just prefer the fighters (and usually it's the least floppy, least fraught with problems mode there is ). Making fighter-only toys would allow them to quickly do some VFs we haven't seen for some time, since the engineering time would be extremely short. Hasegawas are great and all, but I agree, not all of us have time and patience to do them. I can't paint a model worth a darn. Vostok 7

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1) Why didn't anyone tell me there was a Revoltech Protect Gear??!?!?! 2) Why is it showing as "discontinued" at HLJ? MUST. HAVE. SUPER. POSABLE. JIN-ROH. Vostok 7

Haha, five was my first guess but I could only see four pairs of blue shorts Vostok 7

Someone's got an obsession for the Revoltech Revy. I see at LEAST four of them Vostok 7

If you can't tell, I'm a total CF guy in all ways I loved the dimensions of the Banpresto Valks, especially in fighter mode, but it was just soooo floppy (not even nail polish would fix it ) so I finally just glued it all together. I'll have to get some pictures, I actually modified several things to make it close to lineart as you can get with a $10 PVC toy. The wings and the feet/nozzles are still poseable. Vostok 7

Unfortunately, I see it the other way around. It could be potential for more "Macross sucks, long live Robotech!" Or even worse, those fun times when Robotech fans claim Macross "ripped off" Robotech :lol: Vostok 7

So he wants to inform new fans about something they could learn from better informed sources. This ought to be somewhat amusing. All from a guy that rates Godanner as the number 5 best super mecha series all because of ever increasing breast sizes. Though he does list Gunbuster as number two, even if he goes on about the characters being some prototype for Evangelion... Translation: I watched YuGiOh yesterday and now I'm an Anime Expert, like every 11-13 year old in the country. Vostok 7

Hit a little close to home, eh? j/k I didn't mind the social commentary in Wall-E. I'd rather watch a couple hours of getting told we're all fat and inept socially than get a couple hours of "ZOMG, we can't kill ants, they have a whole human-like society!" or other similar ideals Disney tries to cram down our throats. That's probably why I enjoyed Cars and Wall-E so much, because their social commentary was much more palatable to me than the usual drivel Disney pushes. Vostok 7

I love the MS Paint of Roy at the end. Vostok 7

It's nothing compared to yours!! Right now it's just a "corner" of the living room divided off by bookcases. We're hoping to build it into a real room with a door and everything in the next year or so so I can have a little more room but we'll see. My daughter can get into everything right now (except the display case is locked) but fortunately she's pretty good and doesn't too often (other than getting to my HCM Eva01 ). She LOVES the LEGOs though, those are always the first thing she goes for, just like her daddy Vostok 7

Ha, that was my grandfathers. The cabinet with all the LEGOs on it in the first picture is full of knives he left me when he passed away last year. Legos and mecha aren't my ONLY collections Vostok 7

Here's some really crappy pictures of parts of my collection. Not everything is out. I have giant tubs and boxes full of LEGO, star wars stuff, gundam stuff, more macross stuff, everything. And I've sold a lot off recently too Just a few of my LEGO. MEGA BLOKS Zaku II (the barrel of his machine gun was chopped off by RX-07 GunToddler's beam saber ) 1/60 Millia shrine 1/60 VF-0S (sold), 1/48 VF-1A Low Viz 2 with Strike Pack (I have a second Strike Cannon as well ), Transformers, other stuff (finally remembered, the motorcycle is from the Mahoro-san & Sportbike 1/12 set from years ago) Various star wars, airplanes, lego More lego Action Fleet TIE Fighter collection (including the rare TIE Defender), Konami Figure Collection Aliens Dropship. Various HCM Zakus, HCM Tieren Ground Type (in artillery mode), MG Gundam Mk. II v.2, 2x HCM Gundam Ground Types HCM Eva 01 (felled by Angel Toddler), various MSIAs, HGUC Zaku I Sniper, HG Tieren Ground Type, Yamato BGC Priss, (Hard Graph?) Dendrobium MSIA Xamel, MSIA Zudah (with MSIA Dynames' sniper rifle on the ground), old Banpresto VF-1A Super (glued together, no longer transforms), and of course, a Garland. Optimus Prime helmet, M1 tank, Revoltech Helldiver & Patlabor, Halo 3 collectors edition helmet Vostok 7

TDK was great, but honestly Iron Man wrote the book for how all superhero movies (that aren't Batman) should be done in the future. It was 126mins of pure awesomeness. Unfortunately, TDK is going to have a majorly hard time living down the death of Ledger. You can't create such an iconic villain and then write him out of future releases, or even worse, replace him with an actor completely not capable of bringing to the screen what Ledger did. I'm sure anything with Bale as Batman will be good, but it will never be better or even as good as TDK. Vostok 7